A Vegas Story (Part 12)
Title: Part 12: The Hallway (I Heard A Rumor)
Characters: Suzuna, Sena, Monta, and the Rest of the Devil Bats (Told from Suzuna's perspective)
Genre: Romance/Comedy/Mystery
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Eyeshield 21
A/N: So, I have decided that there will now be 15 parts to this story, and that's it. Part 13: The Buffet II (The Most Important Meal), Part 14: The Airport (Never Can Say Goodbye), and Part 15: The Airport II (Waiting For You). No more smut on the horizon, just a lot of antics as the rest of the devil bats get in on the action. XD Enjoy, and tell me what you think!
Suzuna woke up expecting to find her roommate sleeping in the bed next to hers, but smiled when she saw that the bed was undisturbed. It wasn’t too much of a leap for her to guess where her roommate had gone, or where she had spent the night, but the idea did strike her as strange. She could have sworn the tension had become really thick between the quarterback and the team manager once they had assembled on the casino floor, and it wasn’t the good kind of tension at all.
A slight moment of panic hit her as she began to think that something may have been wrong, and maybe her friend might be missing. She darted out of bed, and began pulling on her clothes from the previous night, when she saw a small piece of paper on the dresser. She hadn’t noticed it last night when she came in, because she was a little out of it from all the excitement in the lounge down stairs. Suzuna laughed as she recalled the incident that had landed her, and the rest of the devil bats, including Doburoku-sensei in the security office.
After the three brothers got their clothes out of hock with some of the winnings the Spartan captain gave to them, they managed to buy a bottle of tequila from the sundries shop. The rest of the night was a blur of bad Karaoke from her idiot brother and Yukimitsu, Sena and Monta taking turns puking under one of the lounge tables, the three brothers getting into a wrestling match over the microphone with Komusubi, Kurita trying to break said wrestling match up, and Doburoku-sensei chasing around one of the cocktail waitresses.
Suzuna flipped the piece of paper over and, read the note. Her face contorted into a confused look as she contemplated what the note meant. Mamo-nee was waiting for her in a penthouse suite? Suzuna groaned inwardly, sorry that she hadn’t noticed the paper last night when she had gotten back to her room. She crossed over to the phone and dialed the room number on the piece of paper, but when she received no answer, nagging questions came back to mind. Like why hadn’t Mamo-nee called to check on her?
After showering, changing and packing her things, she decided that she would go and check on the quarterback under the guise of seeing if her brother had indeed made the team, and when they were leaving. Maybe she could get some insight into what had went wrong between the couple last night, and probably fix things before it was too late. Though Hiruma was hard to read to some people, she prided herself on being the type of person who was able to discern even the smallest of clues into human behavior. Her observation skills were unparalleled, and he wouldn’t be able to hide much from her.
Exiting her room, she glanced down the hallway towards Hiruma’s room, and saw a man leaving out the door. She gasped so loudly that the man turned to look at her, and then walked off. Creeping down the hallway, she followed the man to the elevator, and made sure he had left before knocking on Hiruma’s room door. She crinkled her face in puzzlement when there wasn’t an answer at the door, and then she headed toward Sena’s room.
“Oh, Hi Suzuna,” Sena said groggily as he opened the door rubbing his eyes.
She pushed passed the still half sleeping running back and barged into the room he was sharing with Monta and her brother. “Is You-nii here?” She asked as she looked around.
“Hiruma? Why would Hiruma-senpai be here?” Sena asked as he shut the door behind her.
“Hiruma! Where!?” Monta sat up in bed abruptly in horrified shock. “He’s gonna get us! Penalty Max!”
“He’s not here, Monta.” Sena said calmly. Monta smiled as he sighed, and lay back down in bed. Suzuna hovered over her brother for a moment. He was curled up on the rollaway bed peacefully sucking his thumb as he clutched his pillow.
“What an idiot,” she mumbled then kicked the bed remembering his bad drunken version of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”.
“You still didn’t answer my question. Why would Hiruma-senpai be here?” Sena called from the bathroom where he washed his face and brushed his teeth.
“Well, I just saw a man leave his room, but when I went to knock on the door I didn’t get an answer,” Suzuna called back.
“I still don’t get it. Maybe he just was sleeping, and didn’t want to answer the door,” Sena said after a moment as he returned from the bathroom.
“Then who was the guy leaving the room?” she pressed. Pondering the situation, she crossed over and sat on Sena’s empty bed.
Sena shrugged. “Are you sure you saw a guy leave his room?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’m not an idiot like my brother, you know,” she said agitatedly.
“Alright, well why don’t we check with the rest of the team and see if they have seen him,” Sena stated plainly.
“Okay, but there’s something else I need to tell you as well,”
“What’s that?”
“Mamo-nee is missing too,”
“Mamori-Neechan is missing!?” Monta sat up in bed again with a fierce look on his face. “If she is in trouble, I will find her! Rescue Max!” Monta continued as he stood up on the bed pointing towards the ceiling. “But first I’ve got to get rid of this splitting headache.” He crumpled back to the bed clutching his head. Suzuna laughed as Sena shook his head in disgust. Taki stirred on his cot as he rolled the other way, but didn’t wake up.
After Monta and Sena had both showered and changed while Suzuna waited patiently in the hotel hallway, the investigation squad set off to find out what happened to the quarterback and the team manager. They knocked again on Hiruma’s door, and were met with no answer, so they went down the hall to the rest of the team’s rooms.
Sena advised Suzuna that it was best not to mention the disappearance of Mamori, until they had concrete evidence that she was indeed missing. He pointed out that Mamori was a very neat person and relied on very little sleep, so she could have easily gotten up before Suzuna, and made her bed to perfection. The reasoning had calmed Monta down, and though Suzuna had other information to convince her otherwise, she went with his logic. She knew it would cause a panic in the team if they all found out that Mamori was missing, and everyone would react much in the same way Monta had. Panicked devil bats would only hamper her investigation.
The three brothers gave them the usual response when they asked them if Hiruma was there, but they seemed lost in thought when they heard the news that a strange man had been seen exiting the room.
“You think maybe someone’s got him gagged and hog tied naked in that room?” Jumonji asked. They seemed a little too hopeful at the prospect, Suzuna thought, when Sena gave them a slight shrug.
Continuing their investigation, the next stop was the room occupied by Kurita, Komusubi, and Yukimistu. Hiruma wasn’t there either, but Yukimitsu thought it was odd that someone was seen leaving the devil bat captain’s room. It really didn’t make much sense to him that it was a man either, but Kurita just smiled and said that maybe it was a friend.
When they got to Doburoku-sensei’s room, and told him their news, the old man let out a loud laugh, and then shut the door in their faces.
“So what do we do now?” Suzuna huffed with a little irritation that their investigation had not yielded any concrete evidence.
“You think we should tell them that Mamori-neechan is missing too?” Monta offered.
“No, I mean, she could be downstairs at the buffet. We are supposed to leave today.” Sena sighed as he scratched his head.
“Well, we do have one last clue,” Suzuna remembered she had stuffed Mamori’s note in her pocket. She pulled out the piece of paper, and showed it to her partners.
“Why didn’t you tell me about this in the first place? She’s got to be here,” Sena said.
“That’s just it. I already called the room number on the paper, I got no answer there either,” Suzuna folded her arms as she met their relieved looks. Something still wasn’t right about the whole thing.
“That doesn’t mean she’s not there,” Monta said.
“Maybe we should check just in case,” Sena offered and they all nodded in agreement.
When the trio got off the elevator, they noticed Cerberus sauntering down the hall toward the penthouse suite door with a newspaper in his mouth. Ducking behind the corner, the three watched as the dog scratched on the door.
“Fucking took you long enough, fucking dog,” the familiar voice rang out as the door opened allowing Cerberus to enter, and then shut just as quickly. They looked at each other, jaws dropping in shock before making their way towards the penthouse suite door.
“You knock,” Sena said as he and Monta took one large step back once they had arrived at the door.
“You really shouldn’t be afraid of You-nii. He’s practically harmless,” she smiled, and turned her back on the look of disbelief they gave her as she knocked on the door.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” Hiruma said as he cracked open the door, peering at the trio, clad in a fluffy hotel terry cloth bathrobe. Sena and Monta shrunk behind Suzuna who smiled brightly.
“We came to see Mamo-nee. She left me this note that she would be here,” Suzuna held up the piece of paper, but Hiruma stared at her indifferently.
“She’s not here,” He said plainly as he blew a bubble.
“Where is she? And why are you here then?” She began her subtle interrogation.
“They gave away my room, so I took the suite. The fucking manager got another suite,” he answered easily.
“Why would she do that? Why not just come back to our room?” She volleyed back.
“She was expecting you two to have some fucking girl party last night!” He cackled, throwing her off her guard a bit. “I guess the fucking manager got stood up! What did you guys do last night anyway?”
She looked back at the two behind her who slowly shook their heads “no”, meaning that Hiruma was the last person they wanted to know about their wild night in the casino lounge area.
“Well…um…I just didn’t notice the note until this morning. It must have fell on the floor when the room door was opened or shut…” she paused as the room service attendant rolled up with a lavish breakfast tray. Her eyes lit up as her next move came to her.
“Move out of the fucking way, my room service is here,” Hiruma said as he opened the door wider to let the attendant through. The trio got a glimpse of the suite behind him, and stood in awe.
“Ooo, can we come in and see the suite?” She squeaked in delight.
“No,” his tone was firm, but she pressed on.
“That’s a lot of food for one person, mind if we join you?” She smiled sweetly.
“Yes, I mind,” he grumbled back, signing for the room service, and letting the attendant go by.
“Say, You-nii, what’s that on your neck?” She pointed to a small purplish mark she saw on his neck. Sena and Monta looked puzzled as well as they spied what she was referring to. Hiruma sneered at them all, baring his teeth, and then shut the door hard without another word.
“Suzuna, why’d you have to make him so mad?” Sena whined.
“Now we’re gonna get it, and we still don’t know where Mamori-neechan is!” Monta began to cry.
Suzuna smiled as the two boys cowered behind her consoling themselves as they walked back down the hall to the elevator. All she needed was a little more proof, and she was determined to get it.
Omake:
“Did you hear all that?” Hiruma growled as Mamori appeared at the bedroom door in a matching bathrobe.
“Do you think she suspects anything?”
“She had the fucking brats with her as witnesses,”
“What do we do?”
“Stick to the plan and deny everything.”
Characters: Suzuna, Sena, Monta, and the Rest of the Devil Bats (Told from Suzuna's perspective)
Genre: Romance/Comedy/Mystery
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I don't own Eyeshield 21
A/N: So, I have decided that there will now be 15 parts to this story, and that's it. Part 13: The Buffet II (The Most Important Meal), Part 14: The Airport (Never Can Say Goodbye), and Part 15: The Airport II (Waiting For You). No more smut on the horizon, just a lot of antics as the rest of the devil bats get in on the action. XD Enjoy, and tell me what you think!
Suzuna woke up expecting to find her roommate sleeping in the bed next to hers, but smiled when she saw that the bed was undisturbed. It wasn’t too much of a leap for her to guess where her roommate had gone, or where she had spent the night, but the idea did strike her as strange. She could have sworn the tension had become really thick between the quarterback and the team manager once they had assembled on the casino floor, and it wasn’t the good kind of tension at all.
A slight moment of panic hit her as she began to think that something may have been wrong, and maybe her friend might be missing. She darted out of bed, and began pulling on her clothes from the previous night, when she saw a small piece of paper on the dresser. She hadn’t noticed it last night when she came in, because she was a little out of it from all the excitement in the lounge down stairs. Suzuna laughed as she recalled the incident that had landed her, and the rest of the devil bats, including Doburoku-sensei in the security office.
After the three brothers got their clothes out of hock with some of the winnings the Spartan captain gave to them, they managed to buy a bottle of tequila from the sundries shop. The rest of the night was a blur of bad Karaoke from her idiot brother and Yukimitsu, Sena and Monta taking turns puking under one of the lounge tables, the three brothers getting into a wrestling match over the microphone with Komusubi, Kurita trying to break said wrestling match up, and Doburoku-sensei chasing around one of the cocktail waitresses.
Suzuna flipped the piece of paper over and, read the note. Her face contorted into a confused look as she contemplated what the note meant. Mamo-nee was waiting for her in a penthouse suite? Suzuna groaned inwardly, sorry that she hadn’t noticed the paper last night when she had gotten back to her room. She crossed over to the phone and dialed the room number on the piece of paper, but when she received no answer, nagging questions came back to mind. Like why hadn’t Mamo-nee called to check on her?
After showering, changing and packing her things, she decided that she would go and check on the quarterback under the guise of seeing if her brother had indeed made the team, and when they were leaving. Maybe she could get some insight into what had went wrong between the couple last night, and probably fix things before it was too late. Though Hiruma was hard to read to some people, she prided herself on being the type of person who was able to discern even the smallest of clues into human behavior. Her observation skills were unparalleled, and he wouldn’t be able to hide much from her.
Exiting her room, she glanced down the hallway towards Hiruma’s room, and saw a man leaving out the door. She gasped so loudly that the man turned to look at her, and then walked off. Creeping down the hallway, she followed the man to the elevator, and made sure he had left before knocking on Hiruma’s room door. She crinkled her face in puzzlement when there wasn’t an answer at the door, and then she headed toward Sena’s room.
“Oh, Hi Suzuna,” Sena said groggily as he opened the door rubbing his eyes.
She pushed passed the still half sleeping running back and barged into the room he was sharing with Monta and her brother. “Is You-nii here?” She asked as she looked around.
“Hiruma? Why would Hiruma-senpai be here?” Sena asked as he shut the door behind her.
“Hiruma! Where!?” Monta sat up in bed abruptly in horrified shock. “He’s gonna get us! Penalty Max!”
“He’s not here, Monta.” Sena said calmly. Monta smiled as he sighed, and lay back down in bed. Suzuna hovered over her brother for a moment. He was curled up on the rollaway bed peacefully sucking his thumb as he clutched his pillow.
“What an idiot,” she mumbled then kicked the bed remembering his bad drunken version of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”.
“You still didn’t answer my question. Why would Hiruma-senpai be here?” Sena called from the bathroom where he washed his face and brushed his teeth.
“Well, I just saw a man leave his room, but when I went to knock on the door I didn’t get an answer,” Suzuna called back.
“I still don’t get it. Maybe he just was sleeping, and didn’t want to answer the door,” Sena said after a moment as he returned from the bathroom.
“Then who was the guy leaving the room?” she pressed. Pondering the situation, she crossed over and sat on Sena’s empty bed.
Sena shrugged. “Are you sure you saw a guy leave his room?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’m not an idiot like my brother, you know,” she said agitatedly.
“Alright, well why don’t we check with the rest of the team and see if they have seen him,” Sena stated plainly.
“Okay, but there’s something else I need to tell you as well,”
“What’s that?”
“Mamo-nee is missing too,”
“Mamori-Neechan is missing!?” Monta sat up in bed again with a fierce look on his face. “If she is in trouble, I will find her! Rescue Max!” Monta continued as he stood up on the bed pointing towards the ceiling. “But first I’ve got to get rid of this splitting headache.” He crumpled back to the bed clutching his head. Suzuna laughed as Sena shook his head in disgust. Taki stirred on his cot as he rolled the other way, but didn’t wake up.
After Monta and Sena had both showered and changed while Suzuna waited patiently in the hotel hallway, the investigation squad set off to find out what happened to the quarterback and the team manager. They knocked again on Hiruma’s door, and were met with no answer, so they went down the hall to the rest of the team’s rooms.
Sena advised Suzuna that it was best not to mention the disappearance of Mamori, until they had concrete evidence that she was indeed missing. He pointed out that Mamori was a very neat person and relied on very little sleep, so she could have easily gotten up before Suzuna, and made her bed to perfection. The reasoning had calmed Monta down, and though Suzuna had other information to convince her otherwise, she went with his logic. She knew it would cause a panic in the team if they all found out that Mamori was missing, and everyone would react much in the same way Monta had. Panicked devil bats would only hamper her investigation.
The three brothers gave them the usual response when they asked them if Hiruma was there, but they seemed lost in thought when they heard the news that a strange man had been seen exiting the room.
“You think maybe someone’s got him gagged and hog tied naked in that room?” Jumonji asked. They seemed a little too hopeful at the prospect, Suzuna thought, when Sena gave them a slight shrug.
Continuing their investigation, the next stop was the room occupied by Kurita, Komusubi, and Yukimistu. Hiruma wasn’t there either, but Yukimitsu thought it was odd that someone was seen leaving the devil bat captain’s room. It really didn’t make much sense to him that it was a man either, but Kurita just smiled and said that maybe it was a friend.
When they got to Doburoku-sensei’s room, and told him their news, the old man let out a loud laugh, and then shut the door in their faces.
“So what do we do now?” Suzuna huffed with a little irritation that their investigation had not yielded any concrete evidence.
“You think we should tell them that Mamori-neechan is missing too?” Monta offered.
“No, I mean, she could be downstairs at the buffet. We are supposed to leave today.” Sena sighed as he scratched his head.
“Well, we do have one last clue,” Suzuna remembered she had stuffed Mamori’s note in her pocket. She pulled out the piece of paper, and showed it to her partners.
“Why didn’t you tell me about this in the first place? She’s got to be here,” Sena said.
“That’s just it. I already called the room number on the paper, I got no answer there either,” Suzuna folded her arms as she met their relieved looks. Something still wasn’t right about the whole thing.
“That doesn’t mean she’s not there,” Monta said.
“Maybe we should check just in case,” Sena offered and they all nodded in agreement.
When the trio got off the elevator, they noticed Cerberus sauntering down the hall toward the penthouse suite door with a newspaper in his mouth. Ducking behind the corner, the three watched as the dog scratched on the door.
“Fucking took you long enough, fucking dog,” the familiar voice rang out as the door opened allowing Cerberus to enter, and then shut just as quickly. They looked at each other, jaws dropping in shock before making their way towards the penthouse suite door.
“You knock,” Sena said as he and Monta took one large step back once they had arrived at the door.
“You really shouldn’t be afraid of You-nii. He’s practically harmless,” she smiled, and turned her back on the look of disbelief they gave her as she knocked on the door.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” Hiruma said as he cracked open the door, peering at the trio, clad in a fluffy hotel terry cloth bathrobe. Sena and Monta shrunk behind Suzuna who smiled brightly.
“We came to see Mamo-nee. She left me this note that she would be here,” Suzuna held up the piece of paper, but Hiruma stared at her indifferently.
“She’s not here,” He said plainly as he blew a bubble.
“Where is she? And why are you here then?” She began her subtle interrogation.
“They gave away my room, so I took the suite. The fucking manager got another suite,” he answered easily.
“Why would she do that? Why not just come back to our room?” She volleyed back.
“She was expecting you two to have some fucking girl party last night!” He cackled, throwing her off her guard a bit. “I guess the fucking manager got stood up! What did you guys do last night anyway?”
She looked back at the two behind her who slowly shook their heads “no”, meaning that Hiruma was the last person they wanted to know about their wild night in the casino lounge area.
“Well…um…I just didn’t notice the note until this morning. It must have fell on the floor when the room door was opened or shut…” she paused as the room service attendant rolled up with a lavish breakfast tray. Her eyes lit up as her next move came to her.
“Move out of the fucking way, my room service is here,” Hiruma said as he opened the door wider to let the attendant through. The trio got a glimpse of the suite behind him, and stood in awe.
“Ooo, can we come in and see the suite?” She squeaked in delight.
“No,” his tone was firm, but she pressed on.
“That’s a lot of food for one person, mind if we join you?” She smiled sweetly.
“Yes, I mind,” he grumbled back, signing for the room service, and letting the attendant go by.
“Say, You-nii, what’s that on your neck?” She pointed to a small purplish mark she saw on his neck. Sena and Monta looked puzzled as well as they spied what she was referring to. Hiruma sneered at them all, baring his teeth, and then shut the door hard without another word.
“Suzuna, why’d you have to make him so mad?” Sena whined.
“Now we’re gonna get it, and we still don’t know where Mamori-neechan is!” Monta began to cry.
Suzuna smiled as the two boys cowered behind her consoling themselves as they walked back down the hall to the elevator. All she needed was a little more proof, and she was determined to get it.
Omake:
“Did you hear all that?” Hiruma growled as Mamori appeared at the bedroom door in a matching bathrobe.
“Do you think she suspects anything?”
“She had the fucking brats with her as witnesses,”
“What do we do?”
“Stick to the plan and deny everything.”